Microbiome Testing Clinician Course
How to Interpret Results, Avoid Common Mistakes, and Communicate Evidence-Based Insights to Patients
Microbiome Testing in Clinical Practice
A 60-minute clinician training on how to interpret microbiome tests responsibly.
What’s included
60-minute recorded lecture
40-slide presentation
36-page clinician workbook
Price: $179.00
early discount -$50.00
Limited Price: $129.00
Full Description
Microbiome testing has exploded in clinical and consumer health markets. Yet many practitioners have never been formally trained in how to interpret microbiome reports or how to explain their limitations to patients.
As a result, microbiome results are often misunderstood, overinterpreted, or used to support treatment decisions that the underlying science does not yet justify.
This one-hour clinician training provides a clear, scientifically grounded framework for understanding what microbiome testing can and cannot tell us.
In this course, immunologist and microbiome researcher R. William DePaolo, PhD walks practitioners through the biological principles behind microbiome analysis, the limitations of current testing technologies, and the most common interpretation errors seen in clinical practice.
Drawing on more than two decades of research in host–microbe interactions, the training provides practical language clinicians can use when discussing microbiome results with patients and offers a structured way to evaluate claims made by commercial microbiome testing platforms.
Participants will learn:
• What microbiome tests actually measure
• Why microbial composition alone rarely predicts health outcomes
• The difference between correlation and causation in microbiome studies
• The biggest interpretation mistakes clinicians make
• How to discuss microbiome results with patients without overselling the science
• Key statistics and insights from microbiome research that rarely appear in test reports
The course includes a 40-slide recorded lecture, slides without recording, and a workbook designed to reinforce the concepts and provide practical interpretation tools that can be applied immediately in clinical conversations.
This training is designed for:
• Functional medicine practitioners
• Naturopathic physicians
• Integrative physicians
• Osteopathic physicians
• Nutrition professionals
• Health coaches working with microbiome testing
The goal is not to dismiss microbiome testing, but to help clinicians approach it with the scientific clarity and clinical humility that the field requires.
If you are looking for more Microbiome educational reading, check out The Microbiome Network Volumes 1 & 2